The big lie : 120,000 families who cost £9 billion a year

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There is no empirical evidence that these families or this amount exist.
Why is the government putting so much emphasis on it?

titty
I do not deny there are problem families - I live near loads.
BUT
the figures on which this initiative is based are an utter lie and MUST be shown up as such.

here it is on the gov website. Which figure seems like lies because 120,000 troubled families doesn't seem unbelievable. I have three on my street (non working (not a massive issue for me) criminally deviant (a big fucking issue for me) etc) so 120,000 seems like a fair estimate. Average spending on each family being £75,000 doesn't surprise me either.

titty
Government data collected in October and November 2011 estimated that £9 billion is spent annually on these 120,000 most troubled families. That works out as an average of £75,000 per family per year. Of this, £8 billion is spent on reacting to the troubles of these families with just £1 billion being spent trying to turn around their lives in a targeted, positive way.

Find me that data from an independent source ....
Actually save your time. It does not exist.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hl4h2

It is bollocks and local authorities are embarrassed by it. The government is being manipulative in dressing it up as an ASB package, when in fact it is a tawdry scheme giving LAs peanuts to 'turn round' the deprivation that government is actually responsible for.

This government? Or the government in general?

Kal, that's awful, about people in 'caring' roles saying those kinds of things.

Mind you, I did once see a guy on tv espousing creationism and apparently he was a science teacher at a secondary school. Strange old world.